ABL2 settings tweaked Step 2: Filter Modulation
#Acid pro 4.0 tutorials mod#
To do so, we’ve increased the DISTORT, CUTOFF, RESON and ENV MOD by turning them all clockwise to taste. This way you can always return to your starting point! Top Tip: Take a screen-shot of your initial setting, as you are likely to heavily tweak this patch. Īt this point, the bassline sounds flat and dull. To inject some much needed life, we’re going to play around with the ABL2 settings prior to any external processing. We’ve kept things simple yet effective with the below pattern and the neutral/factory settings on the ABL. The sawtooth has a thinner and more aggressive tone in comparison to the more full bodied square wave, so we will use the sawtooth for this patch. Like the original TB-303, the ABL2 has a single oscillator with either a sawtooth or square wave. This allows us to create our own midi pattern in Live’s piano roll where each midi note triggers one note as opposed to PATTERN where every midi note will trigger a pre-programmed factory pattern in the ABL. You can closely replicate this tutorial using any DAW or plugin.
#Acid pro 4.0 tutorials how to#
In this tutorial we’re going to show how to make an Acid House bassline using the AudioRealism ABL2 a popular TB-303 emulation.
Unfortunately, “Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat” had only a minor impact on the development of electronic music at the time and it was when Phuture’s “Acid Trax “ was released in 1987 that the worldwide spread of Acid House took hold.
His album Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat was the result of various experimentations with the unit and is now widely recognised as possibly the first album featuring Acid basslines. However, for many Acid had already been debuted several years prior, when Indian musician Charanjit Singh recognised the instrument’s untapped and unintended potential to create liquid basslines. After playing around with the unit for a few years, many attribute their release “Acid Trax” in 1987 as the first Acid House release. However, the instrument had a second life when a group of electronic musicians from Chicago known as Phuture picked up a cheap TB-303 and explored its full liquid potential. Oscar Peterson on the Roland PianoPlus accompanied by a Roland TR-606 and TB-303